<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I just got the "Kind Of Blue" Miles Davis SACD a few days ago and this 1959 recording is much better than the Stones discs. I feel that with time should come progress.[/quote]
You'd think so, except that the early Stones material, recorded just a few years later, was usually done at bottom-of-the-barrel studios in London - and in a lot of cases, recorded direct to mono (since their producer didn't want to be bothered with having to actually MIX the stuff). It wasn't until they became popular that they started working in better studios (mostly in America). Some of their mid-Sixties stuff, particularly the material recorded at Chess Studios in Chicago, sounds phenominal - and even more so with the new remasters.
The other problem is that while "Kind of Blue" (and for that matter, the bulk of jazz recordings from that era) was recorded live with no overdubs, the Stones (like most pop/rock groups of the time) did a lot of overdubbing, on tape and equipment that really wasn't designed for good-sounding overdubbing (i.e., requiring lots of bounces between tapes, resulting in significant signal loss and added noise). PLUS, the "Kind of Blue" CD was remixed from the original multitracks (in surround, no less). The Stones stuff was simply remastered from the existing mono and stereo mixes.
Overall, I still say they did a pretty remarkable job, from having to deal with some really crappy-sounding masters in the first place. But, after all, that rawness was (and is) part of their appeal in the first place. I don't think "Get Off Of My Cloud" would have the same "bite" if Mick's voice was right in your face, and you could understand what the heck he was singing!